MongoDB: What is it, and how did it come into play as part of the shocking disclosure that took place at "The Pit"?

Catherine Englebrecht of True the Vote and Gregg Phillips of OPSEC organized an event on Saturday, August 13th in Arizona called “the Pit.” The ease of use of NoSQL databases like MongoDB for unsophisticated programmers, however, is a problem: because less skilled (and less expensive) programmers can and do use them, they often overlook certain critical security settings because of their lack of knowledge. What else might have been on those servers? Could they have used the information about blueprints and election machine locations to make hacking into wireless network-connected election machines easier since they knew exactly where to target their efforts? But because of the politicization of so many Federal agencies, not only was their attempt to inform and involve the FBI rebuffed, but the FBI then attempted to turn things around and make Gregg or his team look like bad guys for having downloaded (from an unsecured server) and come into possession of this dataset of 1.8 Million US poll workers. Without trustworthy elections, our Republic is at risk of being pulled down by those who prefer communism and socialism.

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